solid

Meanings

Adjective

• That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
• Large in size, quantity, or value.
• Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
• Strong or unyielding.
• Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
• Hearty; filling.
• Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
• Financially well off; wealthy.
• Sound; not weak.
• Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
• Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
• United; without division; unanimous.
• Of a single color throughout.
• Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
• Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
• Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.

Noun

• A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
• A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
• A favor.
• An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
• Food which is not liquid-based.

Adverb

• Solidly.
• Without spaces or hyphens.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• rock solid

Origin

• From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide (as an adjective), from Latin solidus ("solid"), from Proto-Indo-European, suffixed form of root *solh₂-. sol, sold, soldo, solidus, and sou.